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Family friends and supporters says Chelsea Clinton, who has evolved from a frizzy-haired little girl in the White House to a self-assured public figure in her own right, is ready to play an increasingly larger role in the national debate and may emerge as a pre-2016 surrogate of sorts as her mom mulls her future plans.

This does not mean a Chelsea Clinton candidacy, which she so far does not seem interested in. But it could mean serving as the Clinton public face, and a younger one, on issues that are important to both her and her mother, as Hillary Clinton takes a break from permanent public life after the State Department.

“I think she could be a powerhouse,” said former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a staunch Hillary Clinton backer in her 2008 primary campaign, of Chelsea and her ability to speak on her mom’s behalf.

“She has just, in my judgment, grown up into a person of considerable skill and competence,” he said, adding that he saw Chelsea interview her mom at a Clinton Global Initiative event last year. “I don’t know if she has a personal goal in elected politics or not, or exactly what her life goals may be, but she certainly has a lot of rich personal experience as a result of [her upbringing].”

The public fascination with Chelsea Clinton remains intact, two decades after she literally grew up in the White House before voters’ eyes, fiercely protected by two parents who, even detractors admit, succeeded admirably in protecting their teenage daughter from the trauma of a political upbringing. She took her first steps on a political issue in New York in 2011, phone-banking and volunteering to help pass New York’s gay marriage law, a result that was far from guaranteed. She reportedly helped convince her father to change his views on the issue — one that her mother has not yet weighed in on.

“Chelsea Clinton speaks for her generation of young Americans who support marriage equality by wide margins, no matter what race or gender or even party,” said Brian Ellner, an activist who organized the New York marriage campaign and worked with Clinton on it. “She has enormous credibility on the issue dating back to her work on the New York campaign.”

Yet over time, Clinton’s public presence has become more routine, in New York and elsewhere. At age 32, Chelsea is in a very different place than she was even four years ago, when she got a taste of political surrogacy on her mom’s presidential campaign (she was a teenager when her mother first ran for the Senate in New York in 2000).

Where she finds herself now is as the heir to the Clinton legacy — not of politics, but of service. Still, it’s a role that is intertwined with whatever comes next for her family, and with their public work — several sources say her mom is debating whether to make the Clinton Foundation a short-term camp for herself, or to get more deeply involved in an entity that’s been singularly identified with her husband.

The Clinton's little girl has grown up to become a champion of sex deviants. Given her parents, it's no great surprise. My inclination is to feel sorry for her. Her father, the 2nd U.S. president in history to be impeached, was tried for fouling the oval office with cheap sexual trysts with a woman who was young enough to have been his own daughter. And Chelsea's mother, Hillary, is no better: she stayed in a loveless marriage only because doing so was essential to promote her own poltical career.

Poor Chelsea, what chance did she ever have to have developed a moral compass?

The low-brow country has not lost its Daily Post need for American Royalty. The deeply flawed Clintons and Bushes reign as blue-collar dynastiess in a country devoid of standards and taste. From the trailer parks to the factories, America yearn for royal blood. From Bill's squalid appetites to the Bush girls party life-styles, we like our tabloid regents spoiled and soiled....only in America.

The spawn of white trash takes up the mantle. Arkansas and Hawaii should apolgize to the founders of this great country for allowing such people to rise to the status of "worship" as someone to be emulated by our chldren. Trash is trash regardless of the color and America should be ashamed of itself for lowering itself to the standards of these people.

Trash is trash regardless of the color and America should be ashamed of itself for lowering itself to the standards of these people.

Is there no subject safe from the forced intrusion of toxic racism from the right? There is not a single white trash characteristic ascribable to the Obamas. Their education alone and personal accomplishments takes them into higher levels of American society. I have many, many problems with the President but not so many that your alternative has managed to merit replacing.

The fact is that even Obama's center- right record is discouraging to progressives: he is more a trailer park owner than resident. His signature accomplishment, the ACA, is a gift to big Pharma and to Insurance titans...it is a victory for Corporatists and free-market plunderers than it is health care for the only industrialized nation which considers health-care a luxury.

The Bush girl is on television. She will never make up for her father's war crimes, but her name got her into television. She should not have to bear the burden of criminality her father waged, along with his co-criminal Cheney, whose daughter also seeks the lime light on occasion (she is just a clone of her Darth Vader psychopath father).

Chelsea is as intelligent as her parents and deserves her spot in the sun because she did it the hard way--she earned it.

This is a disgusting glimpse at the country's fascination with political royalty. Politics should be a duty, not a family business. If her name happened to be Chelsea Smith, well, you can figure it out. The fact that in the past couple of decades two families, Bush and Clinton have held the White House for twenty years is simply astounding and totally unacceptable. We have 330 million people in this country and the best we can do is another Clinton, (or maybe two), and two more Bushes? Oh, I and saw Teddy Kennedy's kid now wants the family seat in the Senate. Folks, look at where these people have driven our bus. We fought a revolution against royalty, but politics has replaced peerage in this country. I do not understand why this country favors a death tax to prevent financial plutocracies, but, seems enamored with political dynasties. We need to end the inbreeding in Washington. We need a transfusion of new blood and we need it fast. The anemia of political royalty is killing us.

Chelsea is as intelligent as her parents and deserves her spot in the sun because she did it the hard way--she earned it.

Before I begin, please note that the context of my observations is that Republican War Criminals and all they stand for is crap.

Now: There is no need to insult the young lady by saying that her intelligence is near Bill's. Bill is cunning, devious and clever; to call him intelligent reflects on the observer. As to Hillary, she is indeed far smarter than Bill but has the same moral pedigree: by sticking with the stud-boar, she ratified the denigration and psychological abuse of women and tacitly tolerated her public humiliation.

Chelsea earned nothing. The parents kicked down walls and doors and other barriers of entry to get Chelsea to enter her field near the top. Anyone who believes that Chelsea earned her stripes knows nothing about the Clintons.

I supposed anyone raising issues of moral character has no business posting on a political site but that seems stupid.